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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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